“Un enfant en ouvrant les yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu’a la mort ne doit plus voir qu’elle.”
“A child when it opens its eyes should see its fatherland, and until death should see nothing else.”
“Un esprit juste, en lisant I’histoire, n’est presque occupe qu’a la
refuter.”
“A well-balanced mind, when reading history, is almost entirely occupied in refuting it.”
“Un esprit sublime en vain veut s’elever
A ce degre parfait qu’il tache de trouver;
Et toujours mecontent de ce qu’il vient de faire,
U plait a tout le monde, et ne saurait se plaire.”
“Vain are the efforts of a noble soul
To reach the heights which he has made his goal.
And aye with what he does dissatisfied,
Though all men praise, he finds no cause for pride.”
“Un état purement democratique est le pire des états, lorsqu’il faut
combattre un ennemi puissant.”
“A State which is purely democratic is the worst of all States when it is a question of fighting a powerful antagonist.”
“Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.”
“A coxcomb ofttimes will good counsel give.”
“Un flatteur pent tout risquer avee les grands.”
Le SAGE. Gil Bias, IV., 7.
“A flatterer may risk everything with the great.”
“(J’ay souvent ouy en proverbe vulgaire qu’)un fol enseigne bien un
sage.”
“I have often heard the common proverb that a wise man can learn from a fool.”
“Un grand obstacle au bonheur, c’est de s’attendie a un trop grand
bonheur.”
“It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much happiness.”
“Un homme a qui personne plait, est bien plus malheureux que ceiui
qui ne plait a personne.”
Abbe de Saint Real. Maximes, XL VII.
“A man whom nobody pleases is much more unhappy than a man who
pleases nobody.”
